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...home, however, the Greeks were losing part of Venizelos' plunder to a resuscitated Turkey under Mustapha Kemal Pasha. When Venizelos rushed home the Greek electorate, with one of the world's worst non sequiturs, repudiated Venizelos and called back King Constantine. Once again Venizelos turned his hand to revolution. Back as Prime Minister, he deposed Constantine's son George and resigned just before Greece turned Republic...
...jocularly been said to have met his match. Both deaf, they shouted back & forth across the conference table at each other in French. Ten years later Mr. Grew, one of the first career men to be promoted to an Ambassadorship, became the first U. S. Ambassador to Dictator Kemal Pasha's new Republic (TIME...
Recently the Turkish consul at Odessa, sleek Raouf Bey, returned to Istanbul with 14 enormous trunks. This, the Turkish customs decided, was going several trunks too far. They obtained Dictator Kemal's permission to violate Consul Raouf's diplomatic immunity. When he was found to have brought in 27 fur coats, four cases of the best caviar and other salable Soviet goods, Consul Raouf was fined $2,100, sent to jail last week for one year as a smuggler...
Machinery for the new plant was entirely supplied by Soviet Russia, Dictator Stalin sending it as a "loan without interest" to Dictator Kemal, to be paid back in Turkish goods in 20 years. In the Turkish Parliament the queer opposition groups, which Dictator Kemal fosters and maintains expressly to blow off steam against himself, have charged that the Five Year Plan is "pure Communism," but Premier Ismet declared last week that Turkey's tariffs have been upped so high that private capitalists, seemingly unafraid, are now building cotton mills behind the tariff walls at such a rate that within...
Chatting economics excitedly with his gorgeously uniformed military staff, General Ismet then boarded a yacht loaned him by Dictator Kemal, sailed to two likely sites, one on the Bosporus, the other on the Black Sea, where he founded respectively a bottle factory and a semi-coke plant. The ceremonies over, he gave a champagne supper to foreign experts who are coaching Turkey's Plan...